thank you, commissioner shakofsky. next, we have a commendation for commissioner fong, who is sitting in the front row. commissioner fong was appointed to the commission in november of 2006 and reappointed in 2010. he was elected president of the san francisco port commission in 2009 and again in 2010. he is a native san franciscan. he has been active and held several tourism and travel related positions, including board president, president of fishermans wharf commission, chairman of the travel association, and board member of the california chamber of commerce, just to name a few. also, he is director of the fong family foundation, a philanthropic organization that benefits many local social services here in the city. commissioner fong is leaving the port commission, but we're thrilled he's going to be at the planning commission. he's been appointed to the mayor to head over there. through commissioner fong's leadership -- and i must say, it's been a joy, on behalf of the staff. it's been a pleasure to work with you.

next on the agenda is a commendation for commissioner shakofsky. you did that already? you took that out of order? where are we? [laughter] >> clean up of fisherman's wharf. commissioner lazarus: you took all the good stuff. how would i turn it back to you, commissioner? pier 70. the announcement on pier 70. as you know, the responses to the pier 70 request for qualifications were due yesterday. last week, we started getting a lot of phone calls from prospective candidates who asked if we would consider extending the date. when the number of requests started to grow, we decided to extend the date. the new date is now january 10. that will be in time for our january 11 commission meeting. i should be able to at least tell you how many responses we got. i do want to note that things have changed since then. as you know, we have the acquisition by salesforce.com of a considerable amount of space adjacent to our site, and some other improvements. we think the added time will only lead to better responses. frankly, we're very excited based on the number of phone calls we got